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Forensics: Bad, Bad. Lost evidence has collapsed 6,000 cases including alleged killers and rapists
Crime expert fears that 12,000 prosecutions have failed in the past two years because pieces of evidence that could convict sex attackers and killers is missing — Read on http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lost-evidence-collapsed-6000-cases-26214302
Forensic Bones: A Guide to Forensic Fractography of Bone
The purpose of this guide is to familiarize the user with the science of fractography and how it can be used to examine and interpret skeletal fractures. Moreover, this guide will acquaint readers with the tools and equipment needed to … Continue reading
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Tagged bone fracture etiology, forensic anthropology
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Forensics: Washington dumps state-wide ME system bill. Effort to address critical shortage of forensic pathologists stalls
East WA state death investigations ship their bodies by FedEx for autopsies. 33 out of 39 counties have elected coroners. Senate Bill 5776 would have, among other things, created a state violence and death investigation resource center. Plans for the … Continue reading
Forensics: Phenotype DNA composite images shedding new light on cold cases
It’s a major tool used in law enforcement investigations: DNA, the genetic data collected at crime scenes. It can lead to a suspect or identify a victim, when it’s matched to DNA in a database. But what if there are … Continue reading
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Forensics: Cyril Wecht on the case. JFK assassination expert: Lone gunman theory is still ‘bulls–t’
A new book pokes holes in the conclusion made by the seven-man Warren Commission that Lee HarveyOswald, without any help, shot and killed Kennedy in 1963. — Read on nypost.com/2022/02/05/jfk-assassination-expert-lone-gunman-theory-is-still-bulls-t/
Forensics: DNA links California teacher Charles Wright to cold-case murder
The inability to age DNA evidence is a limitation to these cold cases. No mention of how the police got the school teacher’s defendant’s DNA. Charles Wright, 56, of Hawthorne, was arrested Thursday on a murder charge in the slaying … Continue reading
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Forensics: Emergency Providers’ Familiarity with Firearms: A National Survey
The majority of surveyed EPs reported little experience with handling firearms. Firearm experience was associated with comfort with managing firearms found in patients’ possession. Regional differences were found regarding personal firearm experience and perceptions of workplace safety, both of whic … Continue reading
Forensics: When Expert Witnesses Are the Problem. Looking at bad science and good science misleading judges and juries.
How do we stop the misrepresentation of science in the courtroom? — Read on http://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-mishaps/202201/when-expert-witnesses-are-the-problem
Forensics: Genealogy DNA. Colorado police solve four homicide cold cases with DNA from exhumed killer
Using genetic genealogy and familial DNA, police in Colorado have solved the decades-old cases of the deaths of four females, saying the killer was a man who died by suicide in jail in 1981. — Read on http://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/us/colorado-dna-cold-case-killer-id/index.html
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